Tutorial excel pivot tables. Our data set consists of 213 records and 6 fields. Order id product category amount date and country. Lets say you have a sales data for different regions with a pivot table you can summarize the data by region and find the average sales per region the maximum and minimum sale per region etc. Select the cells you want to create a pivottable from.
Pivottable is an extremely powerful tool that you can use to slice and dice data. Select insert pivottable. Pivot tables allow us to analyse summarize and show only relevant data in our reports. A pivot table is a summary of a large dataset that usually includes the total figures average minimum maximum etc.
It must have only a single row heading.